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HYAKUJO: THE EVEREST OF ZEN, WITH BASHO'S HAIKUS
Chapter 5: Don't be idiot buddhas
Question 1
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Question 1
Maneesha's question:
BELOVED OSHO,
IT SEEMS THAT IF WE ARE EVEN TO BEGIN THE JOURNEY, WE NEED TO FEEL CONNECTED TO YOU. IF WE ARE TO persevere WE NEED TO love YOU. BUT ONCE WE HAVE SOMETHING WE CAN DEFINE AS A RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU, YOU WILL TELL US TO DROP IT.
YOU POINT OUT THAT YOU ARE SIMPLY A REFLECTION AND A REMINDER OF OUR OWN INNER EMPTINESS; SO WE BEGIN TO EXPLORE THAT. WE ACTUALLY START ENJOYING, EVEN LOVING THAT SPACE. YOU EXPLAIN THAT THAT TOO HAS TO BE DROPPED.
THEN COMES THE FINAL BOMBSHELL: YOU TELL US THAT IN FACT WE HAVE TO BE DROPPED.
AND THAT IS THE HARDEST THING.
WHAT CAN ONE DO TO DISAPPEAR? CAN WE ONLY BE AWARE OF THE WAYS IN WHICH WE PERPETUATE OUR SELVES?
Maneesha, it is not the hardest thing. It is the most relaxed, and the easiest thing in the world. But it is the easiest thing only, for a man who has gone deep in witnessing.
I have told you about a king, Prasenjita. It is a small story of great importance....
Buddha was staying outside the capital of Prasenjita, and Prasenjita was going to see the master, to present something to him. He tried to find what would be a suitable thing. He had one great diamond, of which many kings and emperors were jealous, because there was no comparison to that diamond. It was like pure water. Its quality was absolutely one hundred percent. He thought, "This will be the best thing to offer to Gautam Buddha's feet."
His wife was an older disciple of Buddha. Before she married the king, she was already under the influence and impact of Buddha.
She told her husband, "You think this beautiful and most valuable diamond will be the right present for Buddha? I don't think so. To him it is just a stone, a dead stone. It will be more beautiful to give a lotus flower or a rose flower -- something still alive, something of immense beauty and fragrance."
The kind said, "Okay, I take the challenge. I will take both, and let us see what Buddha chooses."
So he took both -- in one hand the diamond, in the other hand a beautiful lotus flower.
First he offered the diamond. Buddha said, "Drop it!"
Now, when Buddha says, "Drop it!" before ten thousand surrounding sannyasins, even Prasenjita could not manage... Reluctantly, he dropped it. It was such a valuable a thing.
He thought perhaps the wife was right, so he put forward his other hand in which the lotus flower was.
Buddha said, "Drop it!"
He had not expected this situation, so he dropped the flower also.
Now he was standing with empty hands, and Buddha said, "What are you waiting for? Drop it!"
He looked all around, because now there was nothing to drop.
One old sannyasin of Buddha, Sariputta, said to him, "He did not mean to drop the diamond or the lotus flower: He means to drop you. Drop yourself!"
That is the only offering you can bring to a buddha, neither diamonds nor flowers, but your utter egolessness.
Maneesha, it is not difficult.
And secondly, don't ask what you have to do to disappear. You don't have to do anything. If you do something to disappear, you will remain the doer. You will get into a vicious circle. You are trying to disappear, so you have divided yourself in two parts: the one that you want to disappear into and the one that is trying to disappear. You will never succeed.
It is not in your hands to disappear. You simply search for the origin of your being, and you will find you have disappeared. It is a finding, not an effort, and hence it cannot be difficult. It can only be the easiest revolution, the greatest spontaneous rebellion. But it cannot be based on your effort.
You have to stop making efforts. You have just to be a witness. To be a witness is not an effort, because it is your nature. Do you think a mirror is trying continuously, twenty-four hours to remain a mirror? It is its nature.
This empty heart is your mirror. Just find it, and everything else that you always wanted will disappear -- your anger, your ego, your very idea of personality. You will enter into a totally new dimension where you are the ocean, not the dewdrop.
Now, it is Anando's time....
Pope the Polack feels a little strange, so he walks into Doctor Snuffit's office and asks the doctor to give him a checkup.
After a complete examination, Snuffit tells the papal Polack that he is suffering from "HAGS."
"HAGS!" cries Pope the Polack, in alarm. "What is HAGS?"
"It is herpes, AIDS, gonorrhea and syphilis all combined," replies Snuffit.
"Holy Virgin Mary!" shrieks the pope. "Is there any cure for that?"
"I don't think so," replies Snuffit, "but I am going to put you on a special diet, and put you in a special room for observation."
"What kind of special diet?" asks the Polack pope, trembling.
"Pancakes and flatfish," replies Snuffit.
"That's a bit weird," says the Polack patient. "Why pancakes and flatfish?"
"Well," explains Snuffit, "they are the only things we can fit under the door!"
There is a hell of an argument going on in the bar of the Howling Haggis Hotel.
At one end of the bar are sitting Paddy Murphy and Seamus O'Reilly. And standing at the other end of the bar are Hamish MacTavish and Sandy MacPherson.
"I tell you," shouts Paddy, "that Irish whiskey is the strongest stuff you will ever drink!"
"That's not true!" roars back Hamish MacTavish, pounding on the bar.
"Everyone knows that Scotch whiskey is the real drink!"
Just then, an American tourist and his wife come over to the bar from their table in the corner.
"I want to tell you all," says the American, "that I think that Irish whiskey is the real dynamite. Last week, my wife and I drank a whole bottle of Irish whiskey, got up the next morning and went to church for the early morning mass."
"What is so unusual about that?" asks Hamish, trying to be polite. "Lots of people drink a bottle of whiskey and get up the next day to go to church."
"Yes, I know," says the American, "but we are Jewish!"
Pussy Green comes to Father Fumble for her confession.
"Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned," mumbles Pussy.
"How have you sinned?" asks Father Fumble.
"Well," continues Pussy, softly, "I have sinned with my boyfriend."
Fumble presses his ear against the partition and says, "Speak up, my child. SPEAK LOUDER!"
Pussy clears her throat and carries on.
"Last night," she says, "my boyfriend and I went to the pub, and afterwards I brought him home."
"Carry on, my child. Carry on," urges Fumble, beginning to perspire.
"We sat on the sofa," says Pussy, "and he unbuttoned my blouse."
"And then?" says the priest, wiping the sweat from his hands.
"Then he unhooked my bra," continues Pussy, "and fondled my breasts."
"And then? And then?" gasps Fumble, removing his steamed-up spectacles.
"Then he lifted up my skirt," says Pussy, "and pulled down my panties."
"Then what? THEN WHAT?" cries the priest, digging his fingernails into the wooden partition.
"Then he pulled out his prick," says Pussy, "and climbed on top of me."
"And then?" sobs Fumble, "AND THEN?"
"And then," says Pussy, "my mother walked in."
"Ah!" screams the priest. "Shit!"
Anando...
(Drumbeat)
(Gibberish)
(Drumbeat)
Nivedano...
Be silent, close your eyes. Feel your body to be completely frozen.
Now look inwards with absolute urgency as if this is the last moment of your life.
Bring your total consciousness as an arrow, moving towards the center of your being. It is not a long journey from the circumference to the center.
Just a little deeper, and you will be entering the very source of your being. The realization of this is called the buddha.
First you have to realize the buddha in your whole life -- in your actions, in your inactions. But this is not the last step, it is just the last but one.
I want you to take a jump from this stepping board into the ultimate oceanic reality. Unless you disappear completely, leaving no trace behind, you cannot be at rest.
The buddha is only the door.
To make it more clear, Nivedano...
(Drumbeat)
Relax. Let go of the body and the mind. Only the witnessing remains, which is another name of buddhahood.
Rejoice this great moment.
Very few people have reached to their own center, even in millions of lives. Hence I say you are fortunate.
This evening is blessed.
This place is holy. Where ten thousand buddhas are just melting in their consciousness into each other -- it has become a lake of consciousness, without any ripples.
Gather as much life juice, collect all the wild flowers, before you return back.
Slowly, slowly your circumference and center will come closer. And one day, suddenly, the circumference will disappear and only the center will remain. That will be your realization of the buddha. One step more beyond that, and your center also disappears.
This nothingness beyond the center is not empty, it is the greatest benediction; it makes you the whole universe.
Nivedano...
(Drumbeat)
Come back, all the buddhas, carrying as much experience. Sit down, and recollect the space you have been in.
Every day, inch by inch, you have to grow into a buddha.
Okay, Maneesha?
Yes, Osho.
Can we celebrate the ten thousand buddhas?
Yes, Osho!
Next: Chapter 6: The disciple is the seed
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